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The Kinks- Sir Ray Davies

For “Lola”, Kinks singer/songwriter Sir Ray Davies In the Studio discussing those essential Kinks recordings.

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Kinks- One for the Road- Ray Davies

“I’m probably the worst musician in the band,” admits Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio on the forty-fifth anniversary of The Kinks live album “One for the Road”. “They’re very good players, and this record  shows them off as players as well.” Part one of my classic rock interview.

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Kinks- Picture Book- London 1996

“The Kinks are a really good live band. We’re not so keen on recording studios,” Ray Davies told me. Maybe that’s why the Kinks have owned their own studio in London for so long, in order to minimize  many of the irritants from recording in public facilities for hire. Whatever the case, this live-in-the-studio version […]

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Kinks- Low Budget- Sir Ray Davies

With “Low Budget”, the Kinks’ July 1979 biggest seller in their long storied career, it becomes apparent that The Kinks were the ultimate slacker band. Led by the Poet Laureate of Rock, my guest Sir Ray Davies, it certainly wasn’t for lack of creative brilliance, but for a dearth of ambition.

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Kinks- Sleepwalker/Misfits- Ray Davies

Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio for their late Seventies rock revitalization which started with “Sleepwalker” and continued into May 1978’s “Misfits”.

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Kinks- To the Bone Best Of pt 2- Ray Davies

Ray Davies of the seminal London band The Kinks, with the conclusion of my interview in conjunction with their live & unplugged “best of” collection, “To the Bone”.

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The Pretenders- Pretenders II @45- Chrissie Hynde

We had never met anyone in rock music quite like The Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde, and honestly in the  forty+ years since, I still haven’t…I have Ms. Hynde here to speak for herself In the Studio  about The Pretenders/ Pretenders II, one of rock’s most important one-two Post-punk punches.

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YES Album- Jon Anderson, Tony Kaye, Steve Howe, Bill Bruford

“The YES Album”, a progressive rock touchstone, was quietly released in early 1971. If the British Invasion bands led by The Beatles and Rolling Stones wanted to be rock’n’roll’s second verse after “Be Bop a Lula” and “Maybe Baby”, then London’s King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and YES were determined to be rock’s “C” section, the musical bridge which takes the listener somewhere unexpectedly before returning to the familiar refrain.

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Styx- Big Bang Theory 20th- Tommy Shaw, James “JY” Young, Lawrence Gowan

Imagine Styx playing your high school prom absolutely nailing The Who’s “I Can See for Miles”, Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home”, Humble Pie’s “I Don’t Need No Doctor”, the improbable “A Salty Dog” from Procol Harum, and simply the most spectacular live version of “I Am the Walrus” ever recorded with my guests Tommy Shaw, JY, and Lawrence Gowan exploring “The Big Bang Theory” 20th anniversary by Styx.